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verb

past tense of segregate

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Recent Examples of segregated
Adjective
Despite a propaganda campaign encouraging all Americans to come together and do their part to defeat the Axis and totalitarianism, the U.S. military remained rigidly segregated with people of color subjugated into subordinate roles and Black soldiers discriminated against abroad and at home. Tracie Canada / Made By History, TIME, 1 Jan. 2025 In the height of the Civil Rights Movement, parts of Vanderbilt’s campus had begun to integrate by 1964, but the halls of the medical center remained segregated. Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 31 Dec. 2024
Verb
In the 1940s, beaches, along with many other places, were segregated in the South. Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 15 Dec. 2024 The decision marked a victory for outgoing Democratic President Joe Biden's administration, which had argued that senior military leaders had long recognized that a scarcity of minority officers could create distrust within the armed forces, which were racially segregated until 1948. Nate Raymond, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for segregated 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for segregated
Verb
  • Data held in qubits is affected by data held in other qubits, even when physically separated.
    Chuck Brooks, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The ingredients aren’t separated by recipe, which can make unpacking and prepping confusing.
    Sara Coughlin, SELF, 23 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Pettersson is more withdrawn, more cerebral, more sensitive and certainly not prone to confrontation by nature.
    Chris Johnston, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Introverts may become talkative, or extroverts quiet and withdrawn.
    Dr. Talia Varley, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Total accumulations of 2-5 inches of snow are expected for most areas, but isolated patches could see as much as 8 inches of snow.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The issue at hand was a pattern and not an isolated situation.
    Hylke Faber, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • That process, undertaken in cloistered seclusion, provides not only the movie’s action but also its warily aggressive tone.
    Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Nov. 2024
  • This is not the first time that a group of Silicon Valley elites have attempted to build a cloistered community, away from but still adjacent to the center of the tech industry.
    Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 23 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • Several of the victims were lured to secluded locations before being beaten and hacked to death by MS-13 members.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The island’s coastline features a mix of striking black-sand beaches and one secluded white-sand gem: Rendezvous Bay.
    Melissa Noel, Essence, 15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The minute a call comes in, the system sends messages to a team of active and retired firefighters, first responders and reporters — people from all around the world monitoring public sources, scanners, cameras, satellites and more — to gather and vet as much information as possible.
    Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The retired lieutenant general said that Iran’s development and acquisition of a nuclear weapon would be the most destabilizing event for the Middle East.
    Chris Massaro, Fox News, 15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Yet global business leaders remain divided on the topic.
    Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 14 Jan. 2025
  • The two parties are most starkly divided now on cultural issues rather than on the economic lines that once separated left from right, making a centrist compromise to produce policy solutions seem less and less important.
    Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025

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“Segregated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/segregated. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.

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